Word: rozsnyai
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Dates: during 1957-1957
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When refugees from several Hungarian orchestras poured into Austria last winter, U.S. and Swiss funds helped house them and launch them on new musical careers. The musicians moved into a vacant hotel, and Conductor Rozsnyai set to work trying to whip them into shape. He prescribed six hours of practice a day; corridors echoed with violins being tuned and pianists rippling through arpeggios...
...counter-espionage agents, and the doors on the upper floors are still heavily padded, having once muffled the sounds of police work. This fact has grim significance for the new tenants, almost all of them refugees from the Russian terror in Hungary. Last week, led by Conductor Zoltan Rozsnyai, 31, onetime associate conductor of the Budapest Philharmonic, Hungary's refugee musicians were starting a tour to prove that the new "Philharmonia Hungarica" has become a symphony orchestra in more than name...
...orchestra (now grown from 50 to 70 members) has surprised critics with its rapidly acquired ensemble discipline. It seems more successful with the works of Hungarian composers (Bartok, Kodaly) than in the standard repertory, stronger in the string section than in the brasses. To beef up the brass, Conductor Rozsnyai recently hired four Austrians; he also recruited an American violinist, clarinetist and horn player...